Be a Master of Craps – Tricks and Tactics: The Past of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French moved south and found sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and across the nation. Most think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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